Teens of Denial

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Teens of Denial is the tenth studio album by American indie rock band Car Seat Headrest. It was released on May 20, 2016 by Matador Records, serving as the band's second album for the label and the first to consist of newly written material.

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Release

In a November 2015 interview with Billboard, Car Seat Headrest frontman Will Toledo stated that the band's 2015 album Teens of Style would be followed by Teens of Denial, which he indicated would be their first to feature an outside producer and a "totally different" sound. On February 23, 2016, the lead single from Teens of Denial, "Vincent", was released, along with an accompanying music video. On March 24, Toledo announced a May 20 release date for the album and premiered one of its tracks, "Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales".

Recall

On May 13, 2016, Matador Records recalled the entire initial compact disc and vinyl print runs of the album following the denial of permission to use lyrics from the Cars' "Just What I Needed" in the song "Just What I Needed/Not Just What I Needed". It was the first time in the label's history that they had recalled a record. The recalled copies were destroyed in the label's warehouse using a garbage truck compactor.

Car Seat Headrest and Matador Records had believed that they had secured the proper approval from the Cars' publisher to include the interpolation of "Just What I Needed" in "Just What I Needed/Not Just What I Needed" and had moved forward with pressing copies of Teens of Denial with the song. However, on May 10, 2016, Cars singer and songwriter Ric Ocasek denied permission to use elements of "Just What I Needed" after discovering that Toledo had changed a single line from the original lyrics.

Toledo recorded a new version of the song, titled "Not What I Needed", which removed the elements from "Just What I Needed" and was inserted in the revised track list of the album. The digital release of Teens of Denial was unaffected by the recall and included the new song, but the physical release was delayed until July.

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Critical reception

Teens of Denial holds a score of 86 out of 100 on the online review aggregate site Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim". David Brusie of The A.V. Club wrote that the repeated "exercise in tension and release" throughout the record "is essential to Teens of Denial's blistering greatness", concluding that "Toledo seems to be saying, buckle in; I'm taking you somewhere exciting. Trust him." Mark Deming of AllMusic found "real and powerful wit" in the album's songs and stated that Toledo "has created something like a novel after previously offering us short stories, and it's a piece of rough-hewn brilliance." Jeremy Gordon of Pitchfork noted that "even with the bigger budget and brighter environs, Toledo's underriding DIY sensibility comes through." NME critic Alex Flood called Teens of Denial "the work of a precocious talent."

Accolades

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Track listing

All tracks written by Will Toledo.

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Personnel

Car Seat Headrest

• Will Toledo - vocals, guitars, organ, piano, Mellotron
• Ethan Ives - bass, vocals, guitars, vibrato switch on organ
• Andrew Katz - drums, mixed percussion, Mellotron, vocals
• Seth Dalby - bass (track 8)

Additional musicians

• Jon Maus - trumpets and trombone (tracks 2, 9, 10)
• Nick Shadel - piano (track 10)
• Jim Dejoie - saxophone (track 11)

Production

• Steve Fisk - production
• Gordon S. Fisk - back cover photograph
• Mike Zimmerman - cover layout, design

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Charts

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References

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